Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's great for me to be able to turn down offers worth £6.5m for two players in a fortnight , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Finally , Type 5 was a small aircraft for local services in the UK and the colonies . |
| 3 | The samples were heated either at 400°C or 550°C for three days in the absence of water , after which the gaseous products were analysed by gas-liquid chromatography ( GLC ) . |
| 4 | In order to avoid bias , we did two different meta-analyses , one using data for all patients in the trial , a second using data for the UK patients . |
| 5 | When we grouped the sectors approximately into local government districts and then ranked them on density of oil workers , this ranking coincided with that based on data for offshore workers in the 1981 census , suggesting that our data was not affected by geographic bias . |
| 6 | Passions gradually subsided in Little Rock , and elsewhere , but the progress of school integration remained very slow : 10 years later only about 10% of black children in the South attended desegregated schools . |
| 7 | Very small schools ( 50 children or less ) accounted , in 1987–8 , for around 10% of primary schools in the United Kingdom , but the proportion varied greatly from region to region . |
| 8 | Computer-held data of previous inspections in the area provides an otherwise unobtainable assessment of the strength of competition in the hotel 's catchment area . |
| 9 | Chief Constable David Graham expressed concern about robberies which are up by 23pc with 130 offences in the first four months of the year . |
| 10 | However , available data from non-diabetic populations in the age range surveyed in the diabetic clinic study have revealed prevalence rates in both sexes of between 20 and 25 per cent ( Epstein et al , 1965 ; Garcia et al , 1974 ; Hawthorne et al , 1974 ; Kannel & McGee , 1979 ) which would suggest that in non-insulin-treated diabetics at least hyper-tension is more prevalent than in non-diabetics in all ethnic groups . |
| 11 | Preliminary evaluation of the newly available regional geochemical data from stream-sediment samples in the Southern Uplands shows a striking correlation between chemical abundances and the distribution of the discrete lithostratigraphical turbidite formations , the granite plutons and the mafic and ultramafic rocks of the Ballantrae Complex . |
| 12 | Reportedly , initial thought was given to trying to recover actual Japanese aircraft from various islands in the South Pacific . |
| 13 | In January , for the first time since April 1985 , fewer than 50% of new apartments in the greater Tokyo area were sold ; Daikyo , Japan 's leading apartment-block developer , had a nationwide sales rate of only 47% . |
| 14 | They are generally much smaller than mainstream schools : 83% of special schools in the United Kingdom have 100 pupils or fewer ; 99% have 200 or fewer ( 1987–8 figures ) . |
| 15 | A bold new claim , bandied about with some confidence by those in the know — those who have studied the demographics , who foresee that 80% of new jobs in the next five years will be taken by women . |
| 16 | Furthermore 80% of all deaths in the inducible group were instantaneous and in 63% ventricular tachycardia was documented . |
| 17 | The survey , sponsored by Pannell Kerr Forster , the East Midlands Tourist Board ( EMTB ) and Nottingham Polytechnic showed that 63% of all hotels in the region believed the UBR had a detrimental effect on business . |
| 18 | HLCAs should be fixed at a slightly lower level than at present , e.g. 80% below present values in the ‘ severely disadvantaged ’ LFA . |
| 19 | Overseas investment by UK fund managers has jumped from about 8% to 20% of total assets in the ten years to 1990 . |
| 20 | Novell Inc says it expects its new NetWare 4.0 to represent 20% of total revenues in the first 12 months of shipment , matching previous releases : some analysts had questioned how quickly NetWare 4.0 will take off because of its complexity . |
| 21 | There is general agreement that this device has considerably reduced the incidence of sudden cardiac death , with an incidence of 1.9% at 1 year and 4% at 5 years in the largest reported series of 555 patients . |
| 22 | Shiraz has stitched up major deals all over the world to boost sales , but it appears that UK buyers are very reluctant to splash out £13 for 30 capsules in the middle of a slump . |
| 23 | Tilbury to Foulness boat sport poor , only dabs and flounder for most anglers in the Thames estuary . |
| 24 | Our friend the kingfisher apparently possesses computational mechanisms which can discover the real position of a fish at varying depths in the water . |
| 25 | Carefully , I removed the hook ; and then , cradling the trout between cupped hands in the water , I waited until it darted off into the depths . |
| 26 | Clerical work was increasingly feminized : by 1970 75% of clerical workers in the USA were women . |
| 27 | New York-based Computer Outsourcing Services Inc signed a definitive agreement to acquire that privately-owned provider of payroll processing and services , which the acquirer declines to name , for 150,000 new shares : Computer Outsourcing expects it to do $3m in gross revenues in the first year . |
| 28 | Government statistics out this week show that sales for ‘ mixed retail businesses ’ have grown only half as fast as sales for all retailers in the past three years . |
| 29 | He boldly asserted that while courses with these characteristics remained goals to be aimed for , there was genuine value in shorter courses for people of all backgrounds in a wide range of subjects — and that in offering such courses the WEA was furthering the spread of an educated democracy . |
| 30 | The inhabitants of some areas ceded by Louis to Henry were similarly unenthusiastic about the treaty , and the people of some places in the three dioceses actually refused to celebrate St Louis 's feast-day after his canonization in 1297 . |